Sarah Zama's Blog, page 38
January 31, 2019
Thursday Quotables – Murder in Belgravia
Mayfair 100 is the address of the headquarter of the special police force devoted to deal with crimes were women are involved. A factual and new problem for the mostly male metropolitan police
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January 27, 2019
Monsters (Primo Levi)
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions."
- Primo Levi
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019
One day there won’t be any Holocaust survivor left, so it will be our duty to keep the memory alive. We – who were not there – will need and have to remember.
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January 21, 2019
Martin Luther King Day 2019
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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January 17, 2019
Thursday Quotables – The Vanishing of dr Winter
Fourth instalment in the Posie Parker historical mystery series, this one deals with WWI secrets and the idea of moving on in life.
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January 8, 2019
Gang Rounup – January 2019
In this month's Gang Roundup you'll find book recommendations (all novels set int he 1910s/1920s) and quite a few video (music and film trailers)
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January 3, 2019
Tolkien: the importance of remembrance and a happy birthday
On Tolkien’s birthday I like to remember him as the artist he was, but also as the man he was. I want to honour the memory he passed on through his stories that never happened.
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December 31, 2018
Happy New Year 2019
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." - JRR Tolkien (The Fellowship fo the Ring)
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December 25, 2018
Dickens, the Man Who Invented Christmas?
Is Charles Dickens truly the man who invented Christmas? As always history is more complex and more interesting than we imagine
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December 20, 2018
Thursday Quotables – The Christmas Robe
The Christmas Robe is a great intoduction to author Jennifer Lamont Leo's series of novels set in 1920s Chicago, but also an ejoyable short story in itself
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